Rainbow Dash groaned as the tree-shaped bruise on her side made itself known with every movement. She could faintly hear the sounds of combat across the clearing as Daring Do, her hero, her idol, fought off Ahuitzotl's wildcats.
Alone.
At her insistence.
She needed to get up. To get back in the fight and help but just trying to stand made her bite back a hiss of pain.
There was nothing she could do. She was just useless baggage to the adventurer after all. Just a danger and a liability.
The tingling in her wings only added insult to injury, a sure sign that just when she needed it most, another one of her friends was getting a superpower instead of her. Typical. But the feeling continued to grow, swelling up far past what she'd felt before and her spirits rose with it.
Was it finally her time? She crossed her hooves, mentally begging for something awesome like time travel or ninja skills or even just a sweet sword to help Daring Do fight.
The power surged as it seeped into her skull, filling her mind with knowledge and an awareness of power. Subconscious knowledge on how to move swiftly and efficiently, how to ignore obstacles and just keep working, and overall a overwhelming sense of speed which all came together in the form of—
"The hay? That's it? That's all I get!?" She groaned as she rolled over, her vision getting hazy as she watched Daring Do get carried away, trussed up in ropes, towards a distant temple.
"Lousy stingy power-giving space thing."
Again, very good job at the exchanges, characterizations, action and future chapter set-up in all the right places. Yeah, definitely feel for Rainbow's frustrations here. Sharing an adventure with Daring Do, hoping for an actually useful new ability and it turns out to only help for building stuff more quickly. Oh well, maybe it will be useful in setting up some traps for the bad guys more quickly or something like that.
Definitely looking forward to more of this.
Well at least she can build those monster traps in record time...
IN A TENTH SECOND FLAT!
I mean, combining those two talents would end up being terrifying; they'd destroy a relatively simple trap, and then she'd have it built back up around them again before they have time to do anything else. Repeat for as long as necessary.
can we even call this a chapter?
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Sorry about that. Taking a tour through a cave today so very little time to write and very little signal to post.
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that just raises further questions!
Just wait Rainbow, the OP skill will inevitably come.
Wait... does this mean she could instantly make trap at any given time now?
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Not really, just because Rainbow can fly really fast doesn't mean that she can do complicated work like construction just as fast.
>traps that break down easily
>efficient construction
>already a practiced weatherpone
Cloud mines. Endless barrage of cloud mines.
Dash obviously needs to placate Nuffle
It feels like the dice are giving Rainbow what AJ should've gotten